Dear Commons Community,

The media is spending much of its energies on following up on the tragedy in Aurora, Colorado.  There are greater calls for tightening up gun laws, examining the violence that has become part of so many Hollywood movies, attempts to paint a profile of the gunman, James Holmes, speculating on his motives, etc.  Charles Blow in his New York Times column, entitled Mourning and Mulling, evaluates American values vis-a-vis our constitutional  right to bear arms.  Without taking a strong side one way or the other, he concludes:

“We simply have to take some reasonable steps toward making sure that all our citizens are kept safer — those with guns and those without.  We can’t keep digging graves where common ground should be.”

Tony